mandrakes in English
noun
1
a Mediterranean plant of the nightshade family, with white or purple flowers and large yellow berries. It has a forked fleshy root that supposedly resembles the human form and was formerly widely used in medicine and magic, allegedly shrieking when pulled from the ground.
This is true of many old medicinal plants like the mandrake , an herb which grows around the Mediterranean.
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1. For the Mandrakes, you know.
2. 13 The mandrakes+ give off their fragrance;
3. Today we're going to re-pot Mandrakes.
4. When Rachel asked for some, Leah responded bitterly: “Is this a little thing, your having taken my husband, with your now taking also my son’s mandrakes?”
5. Alack, alack, is it not like that I, so early waking what with loathsome smells and shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, that living mortals, hearing them, run mad.